Re: [Docutils-develop] [Docutils-users] references by section number

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Andrey V Stolyarov wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 gr...@us... wrote:
>
>>> Nope, at least \ref{...} says there's no such label if I don't
>>> replace \hypertarget with \label
>>
>> then we might output a label along each hypertarget, which should be safe
>> (imho) although not as simple a i thought
>
> Yes, this possibly can work. Don't forget however that \label
> must be put _inside_ the section, that is, _after_ the heading of
> the section. \hyperlink{}s are now put just before the heading,
> that is, inside the _previous_ section.

why ? to have the pagenumber of the section and not sometimes
the preceeding page ?

i think the hypertargets are before the section, so that
one jumps to the section and not below it.

> One more thing to mention is that actually it is better not to
> use {hyperref} package for generating PDFs intended to be printed
> as a book,

why ?
i would prefer to have a pdf that is print and clickable.

> and this will make all \hyperlink{}s invalid. It would
> be useful to have an option to disable hyperlinks completely.

>>>> autoref and nameref do also exist.
>>>
>>> I'm affraid I don't understand how they could help me.
>>
>> not you but maybe someone else.
>>
>> possible solutions
>>
>> * a commandline switch --links-as=hyper,ref,pageref,...
>> * latex-macros in the stylesheet, that
>> * for document local linking we might get away by using
>>    label and ref, when hyperref package is included, refs
>>    are turned into hyperlinks arent they ?
>>
>>    links to external urls should still be href, i presume.
>
> Only in case hyperref is used at all, otherwise it would be not
> too bad to surround them with \verb|...| or \texttt{...}
>
>> * ?
>>
>> and what to do with footnotes, citations ? if
>
> LaTeX has perfect built-in support for these, which strongly
> follows publishing standards. I believe we shouldn't reinvent the
> wheel again.

we already have sparewheels --use-latex-citations or not.

cheers
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